Speaker cabels for dark sounding speakers?

simna, I agree with your idea of moving the carpet, and anything else your might due to reconfigure the room to accommodate a brighter tone. It is generally accepted, as you can see not by all, that silver cables cast a brighter character over copper ones. This may not always prove true depending on which of the 2 types being compared. In any case trying silver speaker cables might prove beneficial. Hopefully others will chime in with those that most likely will accomplish this.

I also use the Kimber 8TC with my Tannoy Sterlings. My room is treated with absorbers, maybe overly so with the Sterlings which were recently purchased.  I am not about to change anything until I get more acquainted with them.

If your open to changing out caps in the crossover and can solder that could be another alternative and cheaper than buying cables. Clarity cap CMR or on the cheap Sonicaps will pull the sound out from being dark. Silver cables will make it brighter but that is not always better. I use silver and copper interconnects and speaker cables together and very happy with results also with clarity caps in one set of speakers with a Jupiter bypass cap.

koestner355 posts11-12-2020 5:32amSo, it seems that this is the majority opinion: silver is bright, gold is warm and copper soft. Are they describing the sound, or the color of the wire? I don’t get it. Is it as simple as imagining the sound in your mind while thinking of the wires color, or is this just a coincidence?

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Close if you can hear the difference, BUT copper is warm not SOFT.
Gold will soften the tone on copper and silver. GOLD really adds a signature to a silver wire that is gold clad, with either pure silver ends, or pure copper. VERY expensive wire, pure NASA spec..

Now take copper ends and dip the end in a crucible of 99. silver. It will do something different again. You have to connect with screws, if you don’t and SOLDER them, the 4% silver will change the sound AGAIN...

ADD a SC .011 of straight tungsten (99.91) and change it all AGAIN.. Mids open up, Highs will stay, where is the copper? (inside the silver). Yes they do work VERY well.. If YOU listen.. There are folks the can Articulate the sound much better than me. I try to explain without contradiction, but with MY explanation, and experience. It’s pretty common because, I’m a common man, nothing to polished or refined here.. I do wear shoes though..

Pure silver say 99.9 mill spec #12 LOW stand count, not high, and teflon cover, then a poly-vinyl. A slow 1 inch twist Clockwise.. THAT wire will not sound anything like what it will sound like for more than 400 hours, more usually. It really doesn’t like the floor either... a #10 or 8 in silver could take 1000 hours. It is one of the worst if you go moving it around to. It takes a day sometimes to settle back in from a de coupling. If it’s windy forget it.. A day..with no terminal ends and graphene paint.

That wire takes at least 5-6 days on a cooker to just get it to 1/2 that break in time.. YES cookers help to change the way a cable breaks in, and CAN freshen one up.. Not wise to change directions either, listen first, THEN pick the direction and cook, the cable. add your arrows, (they should already be on the cable). HANDLE with extreme care and ASB the cable and tape the ends..

Discharge first THEN work to add new cables.. or work on cables..

Copper, LOL drop it on the floor, good to go. UNTIL you tinker a bit.

As far a Mr Nelson Pass, let me ask him on his, First Watt site. He might answer. I’ve never asked him about his credentials, but I sure have about how to build a device to match components for his amps.. Very nice person..

From 25+ years ago.. until recent. I had a question on a B5 crossover of his, he will answer the question.. That was 2 years ago.. James B (Ampzilla) RIP.. No more answers there... Dennis H of Cary. He uses silver wire as an upgrade.. LOL

Regards

Koestner,

Would blue wire sound cool or sad?

I wonder how people would feel about this test:

https://www.audio-forums.com/articles/interconnect-cable-blind-listening-test.15/


Or this one ...

https://www.stereophile.com/content/minnesota-audio-society-conducts-cable-comparison-tests-0


- listener and speaker position
- make sure your room is not over damped
-is your couch highly absorbent compared to your easy chair?
- possible amp/speaker mismatch